Think invisible men, time travel, flying machines and journeys to other planets are the product of the European or ‘Western’ imagination? Open One Thousand and...
Yara Shahidi turned seventeen this year, and has accomplished much more before her eighteenth birthday than most. As a standout star on the award-winning ABC...
It’s becoming increasingly rare to meet accomplished musicians, and in a time when our fingers are crossed that our music and arts programs will not be...
How did a 400-line poem based on the writings of a Persian sage and advocating seize-the-day hedonism achieve widespread popularity in Victorian England? The Rubáiyát...
I wanted to show different perspectives of the parade while connecting it to the beautiful history of Iran. The parade, food, and atmosphere was all...
In an article recently published by The Guardian, the late Iranian poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad (1935 – 1967) was introduced as ‘Iran’s Sylvia Plath’....
Willem Marius Floor was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands. After finishing high school, he attended the University of Utrecht were he studied Arabic and eventually became...
It seems uncharacteristic for Iranians to reveal much about their personal life, let alone write a memoir, because of modesty and running the risk of...
As the world reverberated with the news of Iran’s lifted sanctions, the Fajr International Film Festival recently unveiled its official selection of films for 2016....
Many books, articles, essays in recent years have been written about dogs and their relationship to humans. They all testify to the strong bond between...
